The Department of Defense was tracking a high altitude object over Alaska airspace in the last 24 hours.
过去24小时内,美国国防部一直在追踪阿拉斯加领空的一个高空物体。
The object was flying at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight.
该物体当时在4万英尺的高空飞行,对民航交通安全构成“合理威胁”。
Out of an abundance of caution, and at the recommendation of the Pentagon, president Biden ordered the military to down the object, and they did, and it came in inside our territorial waters.
出于高度谨慎,在国防部的建议下,拜登总统命令军方击落该物体,他们做到了,物体进入了美国领海。
And those waters right now are frozen, but inside territorial airspace and over territorial waters.
目前,它进入了我们的领海上空,这些水域现在是冰冻的。
Fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command took down the object within the last hour.
美国北方司令部的战斗机在一小时前击落了该物体。